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Design for a tableau by Basil Crage

Costume Design
1896 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Costume design for Tableau I, 4 Girls in hammocks by Basil Crage, unidentified stage production, 1896.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDesign for a tableau by Basil Crage (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour and pencil on paper
Brief description
Costume design for Tableau I, 4 Girls in hammocks, by Basil Crage, unidentified stage production, 1896
Physical description
Full length female figure, reclining in a hammock, her arms raised with her hands behind her head. She wears a Grecian-style diaphanous dress, the dress in white with purple ribbons. She has similar trailing ribbons tried round each arm, and a headdress of roses on a double band.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.5cm
  • Width: 19.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Tableau I / 4 Girls - in hammocks' (Written in pencil, upper left hand corner)
  • 'this rose / apricot colour' (Written in pencil, right, indicating a rose in the headdress)
  • 'Basil Crage / 96' (Artist's signature and date, written in pencil, lower right)
Credit line
Gabrielle Enthoven Collection
Summary
Costume design for Tableau I, 4 Girls in hammocks by Basil Crage, unidentified stage production, 1896.
Collection
Accession number
S.671-2012

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Record createdJune 18, 2012
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